The Awakened State "The awakened state is totally open and free, not holding anything. It is self-liberated and naturally free. There is no reason to be tired from it. What is really tiring are the three poisons, the five poisons, the 51 mental factors, the 80 innate thought states, and the 84,000 disturbing emotions; these are exhausting. When they cease, you will understand that all deluded karma is pointless, futile. We really have given ourselves a hard time. We have confined the open view; we have fixated and lost our freedom. We have been overtaken by endless thought activity, life after life after life, thinking one thought after another. There was never any stability in that. Deluded thinking is a charlatan, an impostor. Isn't it better to be totally open and carefree?" Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Rainbow Painting (Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1995) 8 June 2022 Texas Jim Saul Island, Nova Scotia www.granitecoast.ca